Medium severity · published Feb 8, 2018
CVE-2017-6227
A vulnerability in the IPv6 stack on Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) versions before 7.4.2b, 8.1.2 and 8.2.0 could allow an attacker to cause a…
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability in the IPv6 stack on Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) versions before 7.4.2b, 8.1.2 and 8.2.0 could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and device hang) condition by sending crafted Router Advertisement (RA) messages to a targeted system.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 45% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FO
Fabric OS · Brocade
8.0.2b2 · source: NVD
FO
Fabric Operating System · Broadcom
before 7.4.2b; 8.0.0; 8.0.1; 8.0.2; 8.1.0; 8.1.1; +1 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6227
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6227
www.broadcom.com
https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2018-526
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